I managed to get rid of 1 dog crate, 1 bag of dog food, 1 bag of cat food, and 1 giant bag of cat litter (since all my pets have either been rehomed, ran away, or died it seemed kind of silly to have all this pet stuff around).

I managed to get rid of 1 dog crate, 1 bag of dog food, 1 bag of cat food, and 1 giant bag of cat litter (since all my pets have either been rehomed, ran away, or died it seemed kind of silly to have all this pet stuff around).

4 pet items decluttered.
124/300

I know how you feel - one of our dogs passed away in Sept and I'm just now giving away his crate, food bin, extra food, etc tomorrow

Today DD1 is off with my FIL for the day. It's just me and DD2. We just got home from a walk. I'll shower in a minute and we'll get some lunch. Then I want to purge, purge, purge the house of clutter. Esp before the holiday insanity hits. From next week until Xmas I just don't see how I'd be able to keep up.

Tonight should be good. I have friends coming over and they will be forced to take back their big box of records and big bag of books that are in my garage. Also, we give them all our magazines when we're done, and I have MANY for them. We'll probably declutter a little wine too!

One step at a time. I've been doing this for three months. Still there's more to do. I haven't counted pantry/fridge since that's ongoing clutter. But other clutter is slowly but surely being diminished. Pick a room or area of a room and start there.

Today I tossed five picture frames. They were cheapos so I don't feel bad about just throwing them away. I did find a box of toys I'd sorted out of our playroom. I'd put the box aside to go through later. I went through some of the toy boxes yesterday, but didn't realize there was another one!! So, now I need to go through that one too. sigh... :

I think I've reached my goal, and some. My goal was 450. I had a proffesional organizer come over and we unloaded sooooo much junk. We rearranged 2 of my kiddos rooms, organized a closet, and organized my 3rd baby's closet, tossing whatever needed to go and donating whatever was worthy.

She left with 3 huge garbage bags for the salvation army, and a whole bunch of recycling.

Since then I've been randomly throwing away things that just seem to take up space. I'm somewhat relieved, but there's still so much to do, so many more rooms to organize. I'll have to have her come back again, it sure made it all alot easier, she just went to it really.

I think I've reached my goal, and some. My goal was 450. I had a proffesional organizer come over and we unloaded sooooo much junk. We rearranged 2 of my kiddos rooms, organized a closet, and organized my 3rd baby's closet, tossing whatever needed to go and donating whatever was worthy.

She left with 3 huge garbage bags for the salvation army, and a whole bunch of recycling.

Since then I've been randomly throwing away things that just seem to take up space. I'm somewhat relieved, but there's still so much to do, so many more rooms to organize. I'll have to have her come back again, it sure made it all alot easier, she just went to it really.

Andrea

If you don't mind me asking, what did something like that cost you? I'd love to have someone stand over me saying "now, do you REALLY need that?"

I cleaned out my fridge yesterday, but I don't want to count the items I threw away because the fridge is ongoing, like taking out the garbage. I think I only tossed about 10 things, and cleaned out another six or so containers.

I'm not sure if I'll get anything done today or not. We'll just see...

Over the weekend, I gave away 41 magazines, returned a bag of books and a box of records, cleared 2 piles of paper, 2 piles of work stuff back to the office, 26 dvds and cds sold, 1 cardboard box used for shipping and one big wad of fill-air also used for shipping. That's a total of 75.

New total: 244/500. Hmm, not quite half way to my goal, more than half way through the month. That doesn't sound too good.